I wanted to share with you, the story of the birth of my second daughter, which was at 3:43 am on January 10th. Let’s go back three years, when I gave birth to my first: induced by cervadil, 14 and a half hour labor, and an epidural at 5-6 centimeters where I had lost control and couldn’t gain my focus back.…
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Quick Hospital Birth with Gorgeous Photos {Birth Without Fear}
I was not expecting to have our rainbow baby that day, but I wanted to see if things were progressing after hanging out at 3-4 cm for about two weeks and on and off contractions throughout the night. I knew I needed at least one dose of antibiotics and I didn’t want to go too fast at home. After seeing…
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A Mother Survives Two Strokes Post Partum and in Pregnancy
I am 36 and a survivor of 2 strokes. My first stroke was 7 months after the birth of my first son, I was 34. I had a normal pregnancy and a vaginal birth in a hospital after 31 hours of labor. Due to my first stroke, my husband and I decided that it was best for my health if…
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Mama Monitors Her Own Pitocin {Hospital Birth at 42 Weeks}
Kat L shares this beautiful birth story with us. The gown she wears is from Pretty Pushers: cute (and disposable!) alternatives to regular hospital gowns, and a BWF sponsor. My darling husband found a local childbirth educator who offered a 12 week class that was her own blend of Brio and Bradley. We went ahead and registered even though we…
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I Was A Teen Mom
Hi, my name is Christina, and I was a teen mom. I was the least likely person to become a teen mom. I wasn’t a trouble maker; I made good grades; and, I had the same boyfriend for two years. Yet, when I was 17 years old, I found out I was pregnant. The way I told my mom was…
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Long Hospital Labour of a Posterior Baby {Pitcoin with no pain relief}
36 hours after arriving at the hospital, Jason Wayne Cheney was born. It’s taken me a year to finally write it, but here is our birth story… My name is Nancy and ‘birth without fear’ was my motto going into labor, since I had never been through it before and had no clue what to expect. I wanted a positive…
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A Natural Hospital Birth {After a Previous Medicated Hospital Birth}
I had my first son at the age of 20. I knew that I wanted a natural birth, but was completely uninformed of my rights and the process in general. I found out a year later that the nurses at our local hospital would do anything imaginable to get laboring mothers to get the epidural and essentially sleep through labor……
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A BWF Admin’s Hospital Induction and NICU Story
Really I had a great pregnancy. Nothing went wrong. I really couldn’t have gotten any luckier. We were ready for a baby and we got pregnant without trying. Something just told me I needed to take a pregnancy test. I wasn’t really having any pregnancy symptoms. My period was always irregular. It came about the same time of the month,…
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Hospital Water Birth {Membrane Sweep Experience}
I had my first child when I was 20 years old. I was the typical ” I will be so drugged up” young girl. I was pretty much terrified to have any sort of pain. However as time went on, and the later into my pregnacy, all it took was one person telling me that I couldnt do it. From…